This week, Liberty discusses Cloud Atlas, Here Comes the Sun, The Snow Queen, and more great older books.

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Books discussed on the show:

Strange Weather by Joe Hill

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Brolliology: A History of the Umbrella in Life and Literature by Marion Rankine

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Father of the Rain by Lily King

Snowblind by Christopher Golden

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais

The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

How to Survive a Sharknado by Andrew Shaffer

The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier

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